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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enn49" data-source="post: 74999" data-attributes="member: 3458">I'd only been downstairs a few minutes this morning when I went to make a coffee and let the dog out into the garden when I heard a thump. Thinking it was either my son bumping something upstairs or the dog head butting something in the garage, I wasn't too worried but then my son shouted "Help, mum". I shot through to the living room to find my son holding 2 cats, then noticed the broken viv on the floor, Trip's ExoTerra, substrate and broken glass everywhere. My son drew my attention to Trip on the floor on her back, tight against an old record case unmoving. Without thinking I just scooped her up, grabbed a cricket tub and gently put her in the right way up, she moved a little so I at least knew she was alive. I left her for a while until I'd cleared up the mess by which time Trip had climbed up the side and stretched out seemingly alright after the fall.Her viv had fallen 4' bouncing against the edge of the cupboard below. We worked out that one of the cats must have been after a cricket in Trips viv, got his claw hooked in the mesh on top and pulled the whole thing down.I left her to calm down for an hour or 2 before housing her in her old, small container. She did not want to go  in it and ran, luckily inside an ExoTerra viv. Third attempt I got her in. She has a small injury to one leg but otherwise seems fine.<a href="http://s265.photobucket.com/user/paulinewallace/media/DSCF4066.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii211/paulinewallace/DSCF4066.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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